This is unreal to me. I was a product of the busing craze in the 90s. I was bused from a predominantly white part of the county to a predominantly black part of the county to attend a “magnet school.” It wasn’t the first time I’d ever met or seen a black person, but seeing the culture in all of its extremity was eye-opening to say the least.
Societies segregate themselves on purpose and often without realizing they’re doing it. My neighbors are black, and when they first moved in, I admit I thought, “There goes the neighborhood,” but over time, as I’ve gotten to know them, I found out they’re relatively successful people who wanted to “get out of the ghetto,” to paraphrase their reasoning. It’s not racist to want to move into a better neighborhood to expand opportunities. It IS racist to force a culture on to people through federally-subsidized housing.
They bused the black kids from the inner city out to the rural schools where I went. They didn't want to be there. They didn't want to ride a bus for an hour each way. And they didn't want to be away from their neighborhood friends.
They tore up our school. They started fights trying to get kicked out of school. It was not a good situation.
It’s not enough that our taxes go to subsidize housing.
Now we have to pay to have our own communities destroyed.
Not all that different from paying for the bullets used in our own executions.